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ANNALS OF BOTANY
Volume 92, Issue 2, Pages 259-264Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcg139
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Coffea; nuclear DNA content; flow cytometry; dye accessibility; caffeine; chlorogenic acids
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Estimates of genome size using flow cytometry can be biased by the presence of cytosolic compounds, leading to pseudo-intraspecific variation in genome size. Two important compounds present in coffee trees-caffeine and chlorogenic acid-modify accessibility of the dye propidium iodide to Petunia DNA, a species used as internal standard in our genome size evaluation. These compounds could be responsible for intraspecific variation in genome size since their contents vary between trees. They could also be implicated in environmental variations in genome size, such as those revealed when comparing the results of evaluations carried out on different dates on several genotypes. (C) 2003 Annals of Botany Company.
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